# 1950s films in the Prelinger Archives, newest first

**Use case:** 

Searches the Internet Archive for every film in the Prelinger collection dated 1950 to 1959 and returns up to 200 items sorted by date, one row each with identifier, title, creators, date, subjects, description, download count and page URL. Change the collection, date range or media type to build a dataset from any corner of archive.org.

## Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "collection:prelinger"
  ],
  "identifiers": [],
  "mediaType": "movies",
  "sort": "date",
  "dateFrom": "1950-01-01",
  "dateTo": "1959-12-31",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 200,
  "includeFiles": false,
  "maxFilesPerItem": 200,
  "fileFormats": [],
  "includeReviews": false,
  "includeMetadataForSearchHits": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRunSecs": 240,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "position": {
    "label": "Position",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "identifier": {
    "label": "Identifier",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "creators": {
    "label": "Creators",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "mediaType": {
    "label": "Media type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "date": {
    "label": "Item date",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "collections": {
    "label": "Collections",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "subjects": {
    "label": "Subjects",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "downloads": {
    "label": "Downloads",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "itemSizeBytes": {
    "label": "Item size (bytes)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "avgRating": {
    "label": "Average rating",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "license": {
    "label": "Licence URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Item page",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Internet Archive API — Search, Metadata & Files](https://apify.com/insight.solutions/internet-archive-api.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/insight.solutions/internet-archive-api.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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